Improvement in wooden-pipe joints



"WW I 4/ W. N. HORTON.

' Wooden Pipe-Join t.

No. 206,177. Patented July 23,1878.

' Witnesses I ln'v'e'ntolr r M6 y p NPETERS, PHOTOLITHOGRAPHER,WASHINGTON D c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM N. HORTON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WOODEN-PlPE JOINTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,177, dated July 23,1878; application filed May 27, 1878.

To all whom it may concern: tion, Figure 1 is an external view of iii}ipe. Be it known that 1, WILLIAM NEWMAN Fig. 2 is a section of the same.

HORTON, of the city and county of San Fran- A A are two sections orlengths of pipe,

ciseo, and State of California, have invented which are bored out toform a passage, 15,101- Improvements in Wooden-Pipe Joints; and I theflow of water. In order to join these do hereby declare the following tobe a full, lengths of pipe solidly together and at the clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference same time leave a space between theirends being had to the accompanying drawings. which will admit water,which the pressure My invention relates to certain valuable will forceinto the pores longitudinally, I turn improvements in the constructionand union down or reduce the ends of each section, as of the sections ofwooden pipe, such as are shown at O, and fit upon these meeting endsemployed to convey water. This class of pipe an iron or other suitableband, D. The shoulis usually formed by boring out logs, so as to dersupon the lengths formed by the reduced provide an opening of a certainsize, and one end portions of the pipes allow them to be end of each logis counterbored to receive the driven into the band so as to nearlymeet; but opposite end of the next section,which is made a space, E, isleft between the meeting ends, small enough to enter this counterbore,and into which water may pass f-om the interior thus the lengths arejoined and the pipe is of the pipe. This water will passlongitudiformed. nally through the pores of the wood, thus ex- Twoserious defects accompany this method pellin g the sap, and producing inthe whole of of joining the pipes: the first is, that the secthe pipethat condition known as water tions must be made much larger, in orderto soaked, which will effectually preserve it from give the requiredstrength to the joints, than decay. The meetin band is made of anymawould be needed to resist the pressure of waterial sufficiently strongto hold the pipes toter from the interior of the pipe, and the secgether, and is coated with tar, asphalt-um, or end is, that the outsideor shell of the counterother preservative substance. bore is frequentlydestroyed by dry-rot, or By this construction it will be seen that Ifrom other similar causes, on account of its am enabled to preserve mypipe, make a neat not being kept wet, and the joint of the pipe strongjoint, and to greatly reduce the amount is thus ruined. of wood neededin it, by doing away with the It is well known that when wood is keptcounterborcd socket and corresponding resaturatcd with water it isnearly indestructiduced end. ble, and my invention contemplates so form-Having thus described my invention, what 1 ing the joint that I allowthe water flowing claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters in-thepipe to have free access to the ends of Patent, is-- the sections, sothat it may permeate the en- The sections A A, in combination with thetire section through its pores and drive the uniting-band-D, saidsections being fitted to sap out; also, in forming the joint by the aidenter the band from opposite ends, and leave of an exterior surroundingband, which does a space, E, between their meeting ends for tln awaywith the counterbore, and thus enables admission of water, substantiallyas shown me to construct my pipe of sufficient strength and for thepurpose herein described. to resist the pressure that may be brought toIn witness whereof I hereunto set my hand bear upon it with only aboutone-half the amountof wood needed in theordinarymethod WILLIAM NEWMANHORTON Witnesses:

of construction.

Referrmg to the accompanying drawings GEO. H. STRONG,

FRANK A. Bacon's.

for a more complete explanation of my inven-

